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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 12:45 AM
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I am thinking of just cutting out all four cats and straight pipping it to my muffler. I was wondering if anyone has had any issues doing this ie. CELs or other problems
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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 01:40 AM
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Click the search button and type in "cat"; it's been discussed many, many times before, and you'll find your pros and cons answers.

Personally, it only makes the truck loud and a police attention magnet. No performance benefits.
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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 01:45 AM
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I'm not doing it for performance I am doing it to restore power!
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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 01:51 AM
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Because I think they are causing my power lose because I drove my truck from the front of my house to my garage at the back maybe 2 minutes of the truck running and went under my truck to find my cats were burnin hot!!! The truck ha been sitting for 8 hours so it was stone cold!!
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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 01:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Tavman
I'm not doing it for performance I am doing it to restore power!
That makes zero sense...
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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 01:55 AM
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Replace them with some free flowing cats if you suspect they are plugged. How many miles are on the truck? Before you suspect plugged cats, make sure your not burining rich due to leaking injectors.

Do you have any codes stored?

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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 02:03 AM
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^What he said!
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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 02:12 AM
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No codes!! And no leaking injectors!!
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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 02:16 AM
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There is 204k kms which is about 120k miles 2 of the cats have been replace with high flow after they were plugged(Done by previous owner)! The front two but the rear two were not replaced!!
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Old Jun 25, 2011 | 02:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Mudshark

That makes zero sense...
I am trying to restore my truck to factory power because I don't even have that right now!!
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